Karen Shady

I am a happily married mum to 5 children, we own a large cropping farm in Victoria, Australia. Scrapbooking is my 'happy place' and this is where I share my creations. Thank you for visiting, and please stay a while and look around.

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Sunday, October 27, 2013

Graphic 45 Step by step - Christmas Bon Bons

Hi,

Welcome to my blog. Graphic 45 teamed up with Scor pal for a blog hop which has run all this week. And what an amazing week it has been. Full of wonderful, creative inspiration from both design teams. Make sure you call in to both the Graphic 45 and the Scor Pal blog to see the wonderful creations.

I have made these Bon Bons a few times before, and given them to family at Christmas, with chocolates, or a special little gift inside. I usually make them by hand, measuring, and scoring all the fold lines with my ruler. It takes quite a while to do it, so, you cant imagine how excited I was to make them using the Scor pal, they literally took no more than 2 minutes to score and assemble, as opposed to about 15 using my old method. I am in love with my Scor pal, and don’t know what I ever did without it.

Step 3: Hold paper as shown, and make a V cut from the 1 inch score line, and the 3 inch score line, meeting in the middle at the 2 inch score line. NOTE: make sure where you meet in the middle is a little less than half way to the 3 inch score line.

Step 4: Fold the paper on the first score line, and trim another V cut, as before, this time cutting through 2 layers as shown. Again, make sure you cut a little less than half way.

Step 5: Repeat this process until your paper looks like this (above). To add a pretty touch to the bon bon, I have used a border punch, to decorate the edges at this point.